J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous